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Jacquelyn Cochran's avatar

Grace Filled Marriage and The Life Giving Home!

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Tammy Scarlott-Maynard's avatar

📕Chris McKinney and 1 more

Neighborhoods Reimagined: How the Beatitudes Inspire our Call to be Good Neighbors

📗Melissa Dougherty

Happy Lies: How a Movement You (Probably) Never Heard Of Shaped Our Self-Obsessed World

📘The Six Conversations: Pathways to Connecting in an Age of Isolation and Incivility

Heather Holleman

These are my last 3 favorites! 🥰

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Ashley Sara's avatar

Love this

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Chandra's avatar

Love your list! I have not read any of them so I cannot comment on that but I appreciate your list for Pastor’s wives as my husband is considering ministry and I am trying to wrap my head around what that looks like for me.

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Valerie Woerner's avatar

Oh wow!!! Well prayers for you and your family! I hope one of the books is helpful!

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Teresa's avatar

I just started Fast Like a Girl. She is 100% talking about me. I hope this is the thing I need. I’m 51 and have been calorie restricting for 3 months, doing Lindywell 5x/week for 5 months (I can feel the difference this makes for me), we also eat mostly whole foods, restricting sugars and whole grains unless they are non-gmo and organic-the residual glyphosate on grains causes me a lot of GI discomfort and gave me massive fatigue that took me a year to dig out of.

You have several books on your list that I want to read. It’s an inspiring list.

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Valerie Woerner's avatar

Oh I hope it helps you too Teresa! I love Lindywell too!

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Julia's avatar

Sarah Mackenzie, the author of Teaching from rest, is an amazing resource! Her Read Aloud Revival website is fantastic and my children and I have really enjoyed and benefitted from her premium membership.

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Stephanie Bryce's avatar

Teaching from rest is one of my favorite homeschool books! It’s a very quick read and so encouraging.

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Moriah Chastney's avatar

Delighting in Jesus is AMAZING. And it has neuroplastic principles which I’m excited to implement into my rewiring routine!

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Marcie's avatar

I read Fast Like a Girl last year. In fact, my oncologist recommended it. It was a pretty quick read and informative, but I don’t recall any information that I hadn’t read about fasting before. If you’re new to fasting it would be a good read.

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Alecia Nicole's avatar

Zeal without Burnout was one of my favorites this year. It’s a short read — I finished it in a day! — and very accessible. I also read The Emotionally Healthy Leader after that, which I would also recommend! I’m reading Every Home a Foundation now and would 1000% recommend it!!! I already think it will be one of my top favorites for the year. It’s less about specific applications (though there are some!) and more about a heart and mindset shift towards work in the home, which I appreciate!!

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YMO's avatar

Teaching from Rest is what I hand to all homeschooling moms. It’s worth re-reading too.

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Chloe's avatar

I got engaged in December and am getting married December 2025, so I am excited to read the Deep-Rooted Marriage!

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Jess Clelland's avatar

Gospel Mom is on my list for this year and I also have the workbook to go along with it. This year I’m trying to read a lot of the books I already have waiting to be read, as I’m going to be studying full time and won’t have as much ability to read a lot extra this year. 😉 Always love your lists Val for inspiration! 😊

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Dana's avatar

As a pastors wife, I’d highly recommend Gloria Furman’s book! Have read Jani’s too and it was good, but Gloria’s definitely!

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Stephanie Fish's avatar

LOVE Sharon Jaynes, and her book Power of a Woman’s Words is one I recommend often! I listened on audible and took many notes. She hits all relationships. I have enjoyed many of her books. Just bought Momma Moments with God devotional for a new mom. Looked beautiful.

Jen Wilkin studies- I’m starting Abide as well as one of her courses. Can’t go wrong there. Just heard about Gospel Mom on a podcast the other day.

I’m looking forward to adding some of these books to my growing list.

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Tarah Harl's avatar

Wow! What an amazing list. Thank you for taking the time to share this. Not going to lie it gave me a little anxiety to map out my reads for 2025, but was just the nudge I needed to make sure I read more intentionally this year. Praying over you and your words in the year to come.

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